September 2006 - Inkscape Devel

Announcing: A TTF font manager for Gnu/Linux.
by Donn 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hello all on the lists, I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me. I am a designer and I missed the ability to view fonts, sort them into collections and install/remove those collections. It was an itch I simply had to scratch and I ended-up using wxPython to solve the problem. With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape and those fonts *should* appear in the font dialogue. You do your design, and when you are done and don't need them anymore, you simply remove the pog! It's there for next time. It really helps to keep fonts organized per project/client/job, whatever. If you are interested in trying it out, you can get it from: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython I am still "moving" into the Savannah website, I hope to have a short manual and so forth in the near future. The tarball (the download file) contains a README that you should consult. Please let me know your experiences with it. I apologise in advance if it toasts your hard drive, looks at you funny and then steals your car :) Donn.

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WEBFORM Bulgarian translation
by Ivan Zhekov 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Ivan Zhekov email: joneff@...400... submitted the following: Hello, there. I would like to participate in the bulgarian translation of Inkscape. What should i do? Regards, Ivan.

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coding for small business
by vonHalenbach 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Also sprach vonHalenbach: > Have any of the Inkscape developers been asked to work for hire improving > Inkscape? (Not including the Google Summer of code.) This seems to be > something likely to happen later when smaller businesses take the plunge > and switch to inkscape. I think most of the people requesting features at > the moment would only be able to offer a donation as a gesture rather than > enough to pay a developer for a few days work. Theories of end users > clubbing together to fund development haven't ever panned out far as I > know, but it is certainly a nice hope. > > > Sincerely > > Alan Horkan > > Inkscape http://inkscape.org > Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org > > I don't think we want to get into the business of having donations cause > reprioritization of work. It seems to work best when there is a full > sponsorship for a large scope of work, such as happens with the GSoC. > That'd take quite a pool of donations, but I think it could be made to > happen. > > Bryce > That is in my opinion very likely to happen. I had contact to one guy who had to convert his graphics with some crappy propritary software which is protected by a dongle. He used the software just to convert the files for a cutting-plotter. He asked me, if he can do that with inkscape in the future. Such people like it easy and would gladly pay real bucks, so that they can ditch their old software. Would you like to draw a picture with inkscape, shut down the computer, change the dongle on the printer-port, start the computer again, convert your files and plot them? Every day ? If inkscape-coders like to earn some money, they should write something in the wiki or on the homepage, that they were availebal for such activities. greetings Stefan

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Printing Documents
by Joshua Blocher 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

As better temporary solution for *nix systems ( may or may not help windows users ) I suggest using gtklp http://gtklp.sourceforge.net/ it provides a better interface and more options then printing directly to the printer. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Printing Documents
by Bryce Harrington 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:44:01AM +0200, Jon jts wrote: > In my never ending search for a solution to my printing problem > (printing custom sized documents) I can across the following: > > http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/497368-printer-application.… > > Some folks in the know believe it is an Inkscape coding issue. Inkscape > experts, please let us know what you think. Yup, it's a coding issue. It looks like the code in question is in inkscape/src/extensions/internal/*.cpp . Being able to print banners from Inkscape would be _very cool_. This could be a seriously killer feature. > I noticed on the Inkscape wiki site that there is/was a survey > concerning printing from Inkscape. It appears that the question has > arisen before. Yes, that was a survey to see if there were people willing to fund development work. We came pretty close to having sufficient interest, and some people even pledged some money, but there just wasn't enough to make it viable. > PLEASE, Inkscape coders, if there is something you could do to help lost > souls like me print their documents, look into this. I know I am not > alone in this request (wiki question). > > Thank you once again.... Actually, we could really use YOUR help to get this solved. You're probably thinking, "...but I can't code", but I think you could make a huge contribution here simply by helping locate a coder who can do the work. Ideally, someone could be found that would be willing to do this work simply for fun and to help Inkscape; there may be students who would like to take on a coding challenge like this. A more brute force option would be to do some fund raising and then contract someone to do the work. Either way would probably work, esp. if you can help provide them with guidance and feedback as they go. Does this sound like something you'd like to help with? I know this is probably a call of duty beyond what you expect, but it would be a great way to participate in the Inkscape project, facilitate making it more suitable to your needs, and make it that much better for everyone else as well. Bryce

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(no subject)
by Zvonko Kimble 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

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Bug tracking and Closed feature requests
by Alan Horkan 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

I sometimes feel hesistant to close certain feature requests, or how similar things need to be to mark things as duplicates. There haven't been any complaints so I can only assume no one minds (although bulia has corrected some of my sloppier less accurate comments but some days you are tired and __it happens). One of the requests I closed just today was for asking for Inkscape to use the platform native file chooser. Given how the Inkscape developers have already removed this mis-feature from the codebase I'm just hoping for agreement that it is impractical to do something like that on a per application basis and any future requests should be referred to GTK? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1550205&group_id=… The more general issue I am trying to deal with is how can I better know what bugs to close and make sure I dont go too far? It is always possible some developer somewhere will be inspired to add wacky and interesting features, but it would be helpful if there was something the developers could or say to do to cut down on the guess-work when closing request for things which are likely to be beyond the scope of Inkscape. Does anyone have an ideas about cutting down the quantity of duplicate requests? (I've always said anonymous requests put the barrier too low, and users should at least be interested enough to provide follow up information if needed.) Should I start to carve out some kind of Anti-Roadmap in the wiki and try to explain some of the things which fall beyond the scope of Inscape? Thanks in advance, back to trawling through the tracker for another while Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] WEBFORM informazioni
by Michael Moore 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Oops. I replied directly to Michele instead of to the list. Someone better at Italian may want to give a more verbose answer. -- Michael Moore On 9/10/06, Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote: > > name: Michele > > > inizio con il fare i miei complimenti per il software inkscape. > > volevo se possibile avere delle informazioni...è possibile utilizzare questo software in una piccola impresa individuale?è necessario acquistare una licenza?fare qualche versamento? > > ringrazio anticipatamente > > cordialmente > > no parlo bene Italiano, scuzi > > Inkscape é GPL -- gratis e libre, No é necessario acquistare una licenza. > > GPL in Italian: http://www.softwarelibero.it/gnudoc/gpl.it.txt > > speri che aiuti, > -- >Michael Moore

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WEBFORM informazioni
by Michele 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Michele email: mic3000@...1462... submitted the following: inizio con il fare i miei complimenti per il software inkscape. volevo se possibile avere delle informazioni...Ã¨ possibile utilizzare questo software in una piccola impresa individuale?Ã¨ necessario acquistare una licenza?fare qualche versamento? ringrazio anticipatamente cordialmente

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Illegal Transfer Notification { Update Your Account Information }
by Nationwide Building Society 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

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